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Korthal
May 26, 2011

Aka the Something Awful forums.

Yes, the SA forums does have a mobile layout option, but you have to go into your profile and enable it first. Then it goes around and implements it like this:
  • Literally load the desktop page
  • Take a knife and start "mobilizing" it by chopping it up
  • If it isn't quite mobile sized for the device used, continue to chop up
  • Once sufficient chopping has occurred, glue a title bar at the top of the page
  • The title bar is broken, and breaks tables
I could just use a reader app, but I think SA should get a proper mobile layout as well.

Korthal fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 29, 2019

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blunt
Jul 7, 2005

The android app is really good.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
nice link OP!

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

I still had a flip phone.

Chrs
Sep 21, 2015

Lowtax can barely afford to keep the lights on around here let alone fund a bunch of new development

Zelder
Jan 4, 2012

The reader app is great though

Korthal
May 26, 2011

Chinatown, I can't edit the post because the edit button got cut off by the mobilizer

I also can't quote you for the same reason.

Dr. Gojo Shioji
Apr 22, 2004

At least half of the mobile website layouts used today are still garbage that function so poorly that you have to load the desktop page anyway.

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
I'd love to read the restaurant's menu but its in Flash.

Bronze Fonz
Feb 14, 2019




Visiting any website on a tiny phone screen sucks, OP.

Use the app. Really. It's perfect.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ferg.awfulapp&hl=en

crazy eyes mustafa
Nov 30, 2014
Why the gently caress did they get rid of flash

Some loving rear end in a top hat literally just went no more flash, and it was gone

Fallows
Jan 20, 2005

If he waits long enough he can use his accrued interest from his savings to bring his negative checking balance back into the black.
Everything about the internet is over designed and broken now

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
Oh they had mobile websites, they just sucked


Korthal
May 26, 2011

There, I downloaded the app. I didn't want to because I don't want to have to use an app for every website, but since I've already spent money on this site, I guess it's ok.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

Now I can edit the OP too.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

File attachments! That's how I can show you what the mobile website looks like on my phone.


Nvm lmbo the site only supports 1280x1024 attached pictures.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Julius CSAR posted:

Oh they had mobile websites, they just sucked




How are you supposed to look at porn? :thunk:

Bronze Fonz
Feb 14, 2019




Korthal posted:

File attachments! That's how I can show you what the mobile website looks like on my phone.


Nvm lmbo the site only supports 1280x1024 attached pictures.

Goes to show you how stupid website browsing on a phone is.
How big's the screen, 5, 6 inches? And it's beyond 1280x1024 pixels. Yet you can't see the whole site.

Yeah, the app is great.

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror
"mobile layouts" are loving garbage and i can't think of a site i use where i'd rather use the mobile version than the real one on my phone. gently caress designers for thinking scrolling is a sin and that it's good to blow font sizes up 300x so that one third of a sentence fits on the screen at once

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
looks fine to me

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Bronze Fonz posted:

Visiting any website on a tiny phone screen sucks, OP.

Use the app. Really. It's perfect.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ferg.awfulapp&hl=en

seriously look at how poo poo this is. the subforum list has like three forums on the screen at once and meanwhile the plain old desktop site shows me everything under "main" and half the subforums under "discussion" at once. look at how it can only fit like three one-sentence shitposts on the screen. why do people like this

Korthal
May 26, 2011

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

Why the gently caress did they get rid of flash

Some loving rear end in a top hat literally just went no more flash, and it was gone

That rear end in a top hat was Steve Jobs :eng101:

Adobe probably wanted royalties for the rights to use flash and he more likely went no way, I'll make YOU obsolete so that's what happened.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

gey muckle mowser posted:

looks fine to me



That's exactly it, thanks

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

Why the gently caress did they get rid of flash

Some loving rear end in a top hat literally just went no more flash, and it was gone

i can almost understand whining about apple killing flash when it was actually happening, and thus a new and scary change, but at this point we're like a decade out from the death of flash having been clearly demonstrated to be an unambiguously good thing for the internet

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Just get the app and shut the hell up OP.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
When I searched "awful app" in the playstore, the first two things that showed up were dating apps heh

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Post from a proper computer. Telephones are for txting and calling sex numbers.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

Icochet posted:

Post from a proper computer. Telephones are for txting and calling sex numbers.

Something Awful is blacklisted on the company firewall. Thanks to jerks like you

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Awful app is great OP, you should try it!

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

Why the gently caress did they get rid of flash

Some loving rear end in a top hat literally just went no more flash, and it was gone

Probably because it is constantly being exploited by hackers.

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

big nipples big life posted:

Just get the app and shut the hell up OP.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Tiny Bug Child posted:

i can almost understand whining about apple killing flash when it was actually happening, and thus a new and scary change, but at this point we're like a decade out from the death of flash having been clearly demonstrated to be an unambiguously good thing for the internet
could you say with confidence that html5 has actually been any better, though?

we still have autoplay sounds, we still have autoforwarding bullshit, only now we also have focus-stealing ads, full-page interstitials, and countdown timers, and they take up more resources and more screen real estate, and they're harder to block. when flash was malicious all you had to do was block a single .swf file, now it's this loving arms race to make ads harder and harder to extricate from content, and you never know when your plug-in is going to cut some kind of shady backroom deal to whitelist certain companies
the other problem was security and that was always more just something that people agreed was true than a problem I ever had to actually deal with

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


ClamdestineBoyster posted:

How are you supposed to look at porn? :thunk:

Kids these days. We could only read erotica on our phones.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



i still have the old awful app in a folder that i copied from itunes just incase i want to use my iphone 3gs again

Korthal
May 26, 2011

The point I'm making is the SA mobile site is poopoo and I shouldn't have to use an app to browse a website on my phone in 2019.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

Even Fark.com has a good mobile site. Let that sink in.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
Mobile layout was what Lowtax was hoping his new spine would help him do

Kak
Sep 27, 2002

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Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Cubone posted:

we still have autoplay sounds, we still have autoforwarding bullshit, only now we also have focus-stealing ads, full-page interstitials, and countdown timers, and they take up more resources and more screen real estate, and they're harder to block. when flash was malicious all you had to do was block a single .swf file, now it's this loving arms race to make ads harder and harder to extricate from content, and you never know when your plug-in is going to cut some kind of shady backroom deal to whitelist certain companies
the other problem was security and that was always more just something that people agreed was true than a problem I ever had to actually deal with

this does not match my experience at all. umatrix makes poo poo-blocking about as simple as it can be and usually keeps sites from deploying "whitelist us in your adblocker" modals too. saying ads are harder to extricate from content now seems just factually wrong when you used to be able to embed your garbage content in a .swf and have it be literally inseparable from the ads. all you have to do now is stop the ad javascript from running.

also flash security was an enormous problem whether you ignored it or not

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